Sugar · System of a Down

83 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 2:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-9, 28-35 and 50-57, and 1 more place -- 36.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 131 BPM
SUGAR · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 27, 49 and 63.

LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 9 sections: 67 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-26.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART L
OUTRO
5 groovesBELJNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sugar?

131 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Sugar hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Sugar?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 1, 27, 49 and 63.

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